Image processing apparatus, printing system, image processing method, storage medium, and printing method

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: a print job generator configured to perform optimization processing for optimizing an arrangement of a plurality of images and generate a print job instructing a printer to print the plurality of optimized images; an interruption detector configured to detect an interruption of the print job; and a reprint job generator configured to generate a reprint job instructing the printer to print unprinted images, of which printing is not completed, among the plurality of images if the interruption detector detects the interruption of the print job. The reprint job generator executes a first mode that performs the optimization processing on the unprinted images, of which the printing is not completed, among the plurality of images and generates, as the reprint job, a first reprint job instructing the printing of the unprinted images on which the optimization processing is performed.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
 a print job generator configured to perform optimization processing for optimizing an arrangement of a plurality of images and generate a print job instructing a printer to print the plurality of images on which the optimization processing is performed; 
 an interruption detector configured to detect an interruption of the print job; 
 a reprint job generator configured to generate a reprint job instructing the printer to print unprinted images, of which printing is not completed, among the plurality of images if the interruption detector detects the interruption of the print job; 
 an arrangement input section to which a user inputs an instruction of arranging the images, 
 wherein the reprint job generator executes a first mode that performs the optimization processing on the unprinted images, of which the printing is not completed, among the plurality of images and generates, as the reprint job, a first reprint job instructing the printer to print the unprinted images on which the optimization processing is performed, 
 wherein if the interruption detector detects the interruption of the print job, the reprint job generator selectively executes the first mode or a second mode, which generates, as the reprint job, a second reprint job instructing the printer to print the unprinted images while maintaining the arrangement of the unprinted images among the plurality of images in the print job, 
 wherein the print job generator executes an arrangement adjustment that adjusts an arrangement of the plurality of images based on the instruction of arranging the images, and 
 wherein the reprint job generator executes the first mode when the print job generator does not execute the arrangement adjustment. 
 
     
     
       2. The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the reprint job generator executes the second mode when the print job generator executes the arrangement adjustment. 
 
     
     
       3. The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the arrangement input section receives change permission information, input by the user, indicating whether to change the arrangement of the images determined by the instruction of arranging the images, and 
 the reprint job generator selects a mode to be executed out of the first mode and the second mode based on the change permission information when the print job generator executes the arrangement adjustment. 
 
     
     
       4. The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the interruption detector detects the interruption of the print job in the printer that prints the images on a printing medium while transporting the printing medium in a first direction to execute the print job, 
 the arrangement input section receives, as the instruction of arranging the images, a setting instruction of an unprinted area extending through the printing medium in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, 
 the print job generator avoids the unprinted area and arranges the images when there is the setting instruction, and 
 the reprint job generator generates the second reprint job instructing the printer to print the images on an upstream side in the first direction of the unprinted area closest to the unprinted images on an downstream side in the first direction of the unprinted images and executes the second mode. 
 
     
     
       5. The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the reprint job generator allows another printer different from the printer to execute the reprint job when the printer that executes the print job is not available to be used. 
 
     
     
       6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:
 performing optimization processing for optimizing an arrangement of a plurality of images and 
 
       generating a print job instructing a printer to print the plurality of images on which the optimization processing is performed;
 detecting an interruption of the print job; 
 selectively executing, if the interruption of the print job is detected, a first or a second mode that performs the optimization processing on unprinted images, of which printing is not completed, among the plurality of images and generates a first reprint job based on the first mode instructing the printer to print the unprinted images on which the optimization processing is performed, or a second reprint job based on the second mode instructing the printer to print the unprinted images while maintaining the arrangement of the unprinted images among the plurality of images in the print job; 
 executing an arrangement adjustment that adjusts an arrangement of the plurality of images based on an input instruction of arranging the images; and 
 executing the first mode when the arrangement adjustment is not executed. 
 
     
     
       7. A printing method, comprising:
 performing optimization processing for optimizing an arrangement of a plurality of images and generating a print job instructing a printer to print the plurality of images on which the optimization processing is performed; 
 executing, by a printer, the print job; 
 detecting an interruption of the print job; 
 selectively executing, if the interruption of the print job is detected, a first or a second mode that performs the optimization processing on unprinted images, of which printing is not completed, among the plurality of images and generates a first reprint job based on the first mode instructing the printer to print the unprinted images on which the optimization processing is performed, or a second reprint job based on the second mode instructing the printer to print the unprinted images while maintaining the arrangement of the unprinted images among the plurality of images in the print job; 
 executing an arrangement adjustment that adjusts an arrangement of the plurality of images based on an input instruction of arranging the images; 
 executing the first mode when the arrangement adjustment is not executed; and 
 executing, by the printer, the first or second reprint job.